Well, there is a Lakota holy man--there was a Sioux Lakota holy man named Black Elk.

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This is the home of the Sioux, more precisely the Oglala Lakota Sioux, the tribe of Crazy Horse.

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In 2000, completed pieces for the work called "Lakota Bison Jump, " were lying in a field next to the Wyoming foundry.

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According to the Enquirer, Lakota sports participation is down 14 percent, and according to the News-Herald in Willoughby, Ohio, Riverside High in Painesville dropped its freshman football team because of declining numbers.

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The earliest accounts of sweat lodges in Native American culture appear in writings by European settlers from the 1600s, and according to anthropologist Raymond A Bucko, author of The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge, sweat lodges have not changed significantly since that time.

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There's more to the plot, of course, in a movie that celebrates wild mustangs as the spirit of the Old West. ("Spirit" is, among other things, an exciting Western.) There's an alliance between the stallion and a young Lakota brave named Little Creek.

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